On June 6, 2009 I had my reveal and the house became mine. In honor of my second house-iversary let’s take a walk down memory lane!
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| Filming My First Place |
My bathroom used to look like this.
Now it looks like this.
My kitchen looked like this.
Now it looks like this.
The yard before:
The yard after:
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| The yard is still very much in process |
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| The site of the old patio slab. |
Part of this process was removing 10,000 lbs of concrete.
The basement looked like this.
Now it looks like this:
The living room looked like this:
And it looked like this after the reveal:
And now it looks like this:
We removed the old furnace . . .
. . . and replaced it with an energy efficient one.
My friend David and I (but mostly David) removed the ELEVEN arbor vitae in the front yard.
By hand.
And I planted two Japanese bloodgood maples.
The dining room looked like this:
Now it looks like this.
I put in a new back fence, and I’m planning to put in a new side fence this summer. I painted every room in the house and have two hallways to go before I can say that I painted every paintable surface in the house. I had a lot of plumbing adventures, including putting in a new garbage disposal, changing the wax ring on the toilet, and clogging and then unclogging my basement sink.
And I got a new roommate. He’s nice. Did I mention he mows the lawn for me? It rocks.
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| Illustration by Nan Lawson |
The classic second anniversary gift is cotton. Perhaps I’ll finally buy my house some curtains for the living and dining rooms.
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